AF Raises Sights on B52 Production
Washington briefing notes the Air Force aims to hold to a B52 production goal of 100 by 1959 with 600 planes discussed. Lt. Gen. Irvine testifies that production could rise from 17 to 20 monthly and current output is about six per month. The hearing will assess Soviet and U S air power leadership and missile progress amid missile and Jupiter rocket debates. Trevor Gardner resigns over missile emphasis.
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Afi
Vinson
C. S. Irvine
Fig
Committee Services Subcommittee
Irvine
Sen. Symington
D-Mo
Trevor Gardner
Ing
Senate
Gardner
Air Force
Anned Services Committee
Army
Petterson
R-Conn
Patterson
New State Seeks President After Resignation
In the four year old self governing state of Eritrea, President Idris Adam resigned after a 44 to 3 confidence vote in the Assembly. His predecessor Ali Mohammed Redai faced a similar vote last July. Eritrea, once an Italian colony, became autonomous under Ethiopia following a 1952 UN General Assembly vote.
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Asmara
Lritres
Eritrea
Idris Adam
Adam
Ali Mohammed Redai
U.N. General Assembly
Ethiopia
Bomb Hoax Delays Russian Clergymen at Idlewild Airport
Eight homeward bound Russian church leaders and 29 other passengers were delayed four hours by a phony bomb scare at Idlewild. Police bomb squad searched the plane before it taxied to a remote area and later left for Amsterdam at 1 50 a.m. Metropolitan Nikolai of Moscow and the group, invited by the National Council of Churches, spent 11 days in the United States amid exchanges with American church leaders.
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Idlewild
Klm-Royal Dutch Airlines
Amsterdam
Holland
United States
Nikolai
Moscow
Policealso
Nikolas
National Council of Churches
Russia
Ex-Convict Hunted in Bank Holdup. Wife Arrested
Indianapolis police hunt Roy Rudolph Drake, a 32 year old ex convict, after arresting his wife Pauline Drake 23 on a bank robbery charge. Authorities recovered 17368 believed part of 66546 taken from Southport Bank. FBI also charged Drake with bank robbery and taking hostages. A clue came from a girl who saw a rose and white car and provided the license plate. Drake was paroled from Folsom Prison after a 12 year robbery sentence.
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Southport State
Roy Rudolph Drake
Franklin
Pauline Drake
Drake
Robert F. Dillon
Southport Bank
St. Louis
West
Telauve-Ul Drake
Maria McGaha
FBI
Southport
Falsom
California
John A. Whalen
Locust Invasion Frustrates Valparaiso Residents
Seventeen year locusts returned to Valparaiso area infesting neighborhoods with loud noise and buzzing. Police said they found a purse believed to belong to a missing person during patrols as residents voiced frustration over cleanup and disruption.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Aisdown Macarthur
Drake
Polio Epidemic Hits Texas Oil Man Testifies Unit
Texas businessman Leonard F. McCollum testified before Senate lobby investigators about the Natural Gas and Oil Resources Committee's activities. He said expenditures totaled 1,753,513 dollars through March but denied lobbying or campaign contributions. The panel investigates efforts to influence Congress on a bill to lift direct federal price controls on natural gas producers.
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Congress
Leonard F. McCollum
Houston
Tex
Natural Gas and Oil Resources Committee
Senate
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Eisenhower
Continental Oil Co
New York City
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Anel
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D-Ark
McClellan
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Mid- Continent Oil & Gas Assn
Joint Committee of Consumers and Small Producers
Mayors Committee On Natural Gas
National Institute of Municipal Law Officers
United Auto Workers of America
Senate Committee
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